Sustainable Practice: Nancy Zastudil
In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center [...]
Francine Carraro, Grace Museum Executive Director, Resigns
Dr. Francine Carraro, executive director of the Grace Museum in Abilene, has resigned. An expert in early Texas art, she had held the post since [...]
Worn but Unwilted, San Antonio’s New Wooden Buddha Actually 800 Years Old
Art Daily reports that the San Antonio Museum of Art has acquired a really nice woooden Amita Buddha from the late 12th century with funds [...]
Fun Facts About Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals, Coming to Houston’s Hermann Park in May
The Hermann Park installation is part of a six-stop US tour that includes New York, Los Angeles, Princeton, NJ, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh. The 12 [...]
Fort Worth’s Home-Grown Vaquero-Sculpture-With-a-Pistol-Controversy Dies with a Whimper
Echoing, in diluted form, the debate over the appropriateness of Luis Jimenez’ famous pistol-waving Vaquero, copies of which are sited on Houston’s Northside, and at [...]
Vampire Bats are Coming to Texas!
If the winters continue to be as warm as this one, scientists say that the vampire bat, scourge of the Mexican cattle industry, could begin [...]
Storage Bin Bonanza: Berkeley’s Loss is Huntington’s Gain
An amusing and embarrassing story in today’s NY Times relates how UC Berkeley accidentally sold a carved redwood panel by WPA artist Sargent Johnson for [...]
Vidor Sculptor Charlie Stagg Dies After Fall Into Fire Pit at Backwoods Visionary Compound
Vidor sculptor Charlie Stagg died yesterday at UTMB in Galveston from burns suffered when he fell into an open fire pit at his eccentric folk-art [...]
WHAT’S THE WORD FROM JOHANNESBURG?
Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in [...]
Surprise! Obama’s 2013 Budget Doesn’t Axe the Arts; Gator Pool Frothing in Anticipation
The president’s 2013 “re-election budget” has got my vote: Allen Keckonen of the San Antonio Art Festivals Examiner has waded through the numbers and concludes [...]
350 Words: “In the Interest of Time” at Brazos Gallery
The exhibition In the Interest of Time presents three projects by the Brooklyn collaborative Smudge Studio, comprised of artists Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse. Their [...]
Abstraction Packed
There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions [...]
Big Howdy From San Angelo’s Working Cowboy
Scott Sustek’s “Working Cowboy”, an over-life-sized sculpture of a waving man with a rope and saddle, was installed outside San Angelo on highway 87 near [...]
Google of Doodles at MFAH
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be supporting the the 2012 “Doodle 4 Google” contest by exhibiting the Texas state finalists’ drawings this summer. [...]
Bandele Tyehimba, of Pan African Connection, has Died
Bandele Tyehimba, owner of Pan African Connection, an African art gallery and meeting place for progressive organizations in South Dallas, has died. The 58-year old [...]
Mientras me caso…
There are few times that I complain about living in Mexico. There are even fewer things that bother me about living here. Generally, I love [...]
Blanton Names Sherman as New Development Director
UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art has appointed Molly Hasie Sherman as Director of Development effective April 1. A University of Texas alum, Sherman has [...]
Asia Society’s New Tanuguchi Building Subject of PBS Documentary
A 30-minute PBS documentary on the newly completed Asia Society Texas Center building is in the works. Houston PBS is producing the video, the third [...]
Teens, Lies, and Videotape: Reel Teen Film Fest at HPL
The Houston Public Library is taking submissions for its 4th annual Teen Film Festival. With cash prizes for the best short documentary, music video, animation [...]
